The researchers analyzed craters more than 12 miles wide created in the past 250 million years, and compared their pattern against the 35-million-year cycle. They found that it was three times more likely that the craters matched the dark matter cycle than that they occurred randomly

But the alternative hypothesis was that the impact cycles were caused by a companion star (or something). Regardless, when you're analyzing something that is already recognized to have a pattern, the chance that it happened randomly isn't particularly big.

So if there's a 1 percent chance it happened randomly, there's a 3 percent chance this caused it. If there's a 25 percent chance it was random, there's a 75% chance it was caused by the disc. Which is it? We don't know because science reports are shiat at their jobs.

Yeah, the story is most likely sensationalist hype based on someone else's research, but either presented poorly, or just plain made up. You can tell 1 sentence in if it's a LiveScience article. God that website sucks.

Sooo, every 35 million years we get F'd up the A-hole. When are we due to get bent over next? Come on Fox, you're supposed to tell me when to be scared! Saying "scary things may happen at some point" doesn't affect me if not in the next 50 or so years.